The San Martín de Burzaco Chronicle
Match19 Feb 2028
No end in sight to San Martín de Burzaco's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Martín de Burzaco has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Tempers go at San Martín de Burzaco
Ignacio Serpa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Feb 2028
A row about effort at San Martín de Burzaco
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías Brizuela was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Feb 2028
San Martín de Burzaco count the cost of losing Jorge Ramírez
21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Cipriano Treppo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match19 Feb 2028
San Martín de Burzaco and Liniers take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Emiliano Bruno was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the San Martín de Burzaco dressing room was either.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Tiziano Van Der Tuin does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Market21 Feb 2028
The Lucas Lezcano question follows San Martín de Burzaco around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Lucas Lezcano’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Matías Laurino has become a man the manager trusts
- Player ratings Rodrigo Velázquez was unplayable
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Lucas Lezcano